Town of Banff

Land Use Bylaw Review

Phase 2 of the Land Use Bylaw review underway

Phase 2 of the Land Use Bylaw review addresses issues related to commercial development within the Town of Banff. Public outreach is completed and in the next step, Council will receive a report from a community based working group to consider and advise on three areas of interest. The report will be presented on November 28.

Find out more about the 27 recommendations to Council and how they voted in our August 15 Council minutes.

Visit www.banff.ca/ourlanduse for information on the review.

 

What is guiding the review team? 

The The Land Use Bylaw review is guided by many policies and other factors, including:

• The federally approved Banff Community Plan;
• The Banff National Park Management Plan;
• Indexperience Surveys commissioned jointly by the Town of Banff and Banff Lake Louise Tourism (Summer 2008 Results - PDF - 890 kb);
• Banff Commercial Build-Out Study (2007);( PDF - 1.2 mb)
• Banff Summit (A meeting of local business leaders held in late 2009);
• The Federal-Provincial Incorporation Agreement; and,
• The National Parks Act.